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Building on recent and ongoing efforts to limit Chinese government access to government contractor supply chains, the FAR Councils published an&nbsp;<a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/06/02/2023-11756/federal-acquisition-regulation-prohibition-on-a-bytedance-covered-application">interim rule</a>&nbsp;effective June 2, 2023, that will broadly ban TikTok on contractor and contractor employee electronic devices used in the performance of federal contracts. The ban will be implemented through a new contract clause at FAR 52.204-27. Expect to see the clause added in all future solicitations (including commercially available off-the-shelf (“COTS”) acquisitions and micro-purchases) and added to existing contracts over the next month. We answer seven common questions on this new interim rule and offer several compliance tips.

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The new TikTok ban broadly prohibits contractors from having or using a “covered application” (e.g., TikTok or other successor applications by ByteDance Limited, a privately held company headquartered in Beijing, China) on any “information technology” used in the performance of a government contract. The ban applies regardless of whether the technology is owned by the government, the contractor, or the contractor’s employees. Bottom line, the rule has a (very) broad reach—it applies to contracts below the micro-purchase threshold, contracts for commercial products and services, and COTS items.

To read the full post, please visit our&nbsp;<a href="https://governmentcontractsnavigator.com/2023/06/14/and-no-longer-trending-7-faqs-regarding-the-federal-contractor-tiktok-ban/">Government Contracts Navigator</a>&nbsp;blog.

And No Longer Trending: 7 FAQs Regarding the Federal Contractor TikTok Ban

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